Hollyamber Kennedy

Hollyamber Kennedy received her PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Columbia University in 2019. She also holds an MA in Modern Art, Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archeology. Kennedy’s current book project charts a comparative spatial, architectural, and landscape history of forced migration and ethno-nationalist violence in the German colonial empire, tracing the introduction of a racialized politics of land in the languages of German architectural modernism. Her study examines the entanglements between the land practices of the little-known German project of internal colonization, administered by the Prussian Settlement Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture in partitioned Poland between 1886 and 1918, and the resettlement and land-clearance policies of German Namibia, both during and immediately following the Herero and Nama wars of resistance. Her research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Society of Architectural Historians, the DAAD, the Social Science Research Council, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Kennedy’s writing has been published by the University of Chicago Press, Kunstpalais Erlangen, The Avery Review, Whitechapel Gallery, The MIT Press, and Grey Room.